Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Wm. Jose Sinclair : Artwork

This post originally introduced my artwork, and I included a batch of works in one post. I've since reposted them individually so they can be easier referenced and the site will load faster.

I kept this post here because of the comments, I didn't want to lose those.Thanks to all who posted comments or sent eMails so far, you've been very nice.

This self-portrait, at age 18, was done overnight when we were assigned to do a 'flat painting' in college, which is impossible. As soon as you put anything down with paint, you create space and destroy the two dimensional aspect of a surface. My solution was to do a painting of a flat object, so to signify that it was flat I used a yearbook proof photograph so the realistic painting was of a flat object. My professor said I solved it intellectually, so he loved it.

6 comments:

Beautiful and lovely artwork. No, I wouldn't insult you with offering you a paltry amount of money for something that took a long time to create. I am an art lover and while not having lucked out at any yard sales I have been quite lucky at thrift stores. My big find is a mystery painting, quite macabre. I bought it for 10 bucks because I thought it was this beautiful and restful ( HA! ) painting of an avenue of trees. It turned out that the painting is FULL of ghosts! There is a screaming profile, a ghost rising from a mausoleum, a wolf lurking, ghost here, another ghost there, a crying baby. It is unsigned. So I have no clue who painted it, where the trees are or why the artist painted it. But whomever the artist it, they were a master. It is brilliant.I paint abstract art and the occasional desert scene ( I live in the desert after almost 2 decades in Hollywood ). But my real passion is writing so I try to paint a picture with my pen and paper. I have no cats ( my last spoiled furry monster died ) on me in 2001 after 14 years of pure indulgence ). I maybe it was the maple bars ).I like your blog and enjoy your art.

Thanks, art lovers!Eyes are the key to portraits, in my opinion; in fact, the rest can become secondary and almost irrelevant if the eyes work. The cool thing with portraits: everyone has the same items, they're just different shapes and no one is totally symmetrical anyway, you have to capture the little imperfections...and like Vermeer, it helps to use photography, mirrors, projections, whatever you can for accuracy!

I will post more, I need a 35mm slide scanner, I have over 500 on old 35mm slides, not digitized - major bummer!

I appreciate and I like much your work. You are very diversified and it's interesting. Each picture is different, your universe changes with each image. Thank you very much for this pleasant moment to look at and admire your Art.

Digital Copyright

New Photography Blog

Portraits Only

Check out my new Jose Sinclair Portraits blog - all my portrait drawings and photos in one location (and photos of the artist from other humanoids) - just started, my scanned 35mm slides are still soon to follow

Duane Allman

Charcoal pencil (the Allmans lived next door to my grandmother in Macon) - the last of three portraits I did of Duane ($1000)

About the Artist

B.F.A., cum laude, Painting and Drawing, University of Georgia (1972). Journalism and art scholarships, I was seduced by beauty and left writing for art.

How to Buy My Artwork

Some of these are for sale, you'll see prices; others I'll accept email bids and either accept the bid or post it here as "best offer". A few of these are gone already (NFS, not for sale), I just wanted to display them for everyone to see, including those I won’t sell while alive – you can get those when I’m dead for nothing if you can find me! Email: wmjosesinclair@gmail.com

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When I Say "Box Framed"

Box frame: a 'shadow-box', a half-inch gap of space between the masonite painting and the lattice edging (really there just for protection), so they look like they're floating in a box, not touching the frame. I find real frames on paintings to be distracting and try to hide the framing as much as possible and make it look like a small thin line, just like the borders on these digital images. I paint on tempered masonite board (for its smooth glassy surface), not canvas, which has a distracting and rough texture. Da Vinci painted on wood also, usually heavy oak; the Mona Lisa weighs 80 lbs unframed.